My Review - Magpie Murders
My Rating 7/10. Streaming on Britbox
After seeing Agatha Christie's famous stage whodunnit The Mousetrap iv3 come to appreciate her genius for murder mysteries even more .
Magpie Murders has an interesting plot line or plot lines as there really are two movies in one, Sometimes this works for me eg The French Lieutenant's Woman but in Magpie Murders which is about a most unpleasant author Alan Conway played very convincingly by Irish actor Conieth Hill who disappears after sending his latest murder mystery minus the last chapter to his publishing editor Susan Ryeland who is played by one of my favourite actresses Lesley Manville.
The series for me was entertaining, well written but confusing with so many characters slipping in and out of the story.
We have the real time story of the disappearance of the author of Magpie Murders plus weaving in and out all the characters in Alan Conway's crime novel.
I can't fault the performances or the production of this 6 episode double scoop of mystery flavours.
Conieth Hill, Lesley Manville and Tim McCullen as Atticus Pünd the clever sleuth who's creator Alan Conway has decided that this will be the last case for Atticus.
This latest book Magpie Murders which misses the last chapter throws publishing editor Susan Ryeland and her CEO played by Michael Maloney as Charles Clover into a panic because their best selling author Alan Conway has disappeared and this looks like the final Atticus Pünd crime saga.
Agatha Christie who is the acknowledged benchmark author of crime mystery novels always follows a thread then cleverly turns any assumptions of guilt upside down .
While entertaining I found the television series of Magpie Murders written by Anthony Horowitz confusing in its story flow if the fictional story was in a different period perhaps like The French Lieutenant's Woman I may have liked it more ?
After seeing Agatha Christie's famous stage whodunnit The Mousetrap iv3 come to appreciate her genius for murder mysteries even more .
Magpie Murders has an interesting plot line or plot lines as there really are two movies in one, Sometimes this works for me eg The French Lieutenant's Woman but in Magpie Murders which is about a most unpleasant author Alan Conway played very convincingly by Irish actor Conieth Hill who disappears after sending his latest murder mystery minus the last chapter to his publishing editor Susan Ryeland who is played by one of my favourite actresses Lesley Manville.
The series for me was entertaining, well written but confusing with so many characters slipping in and out of the story.
We have the real time story of the disappearance of the author of Magpie Murders plus weaving in and out all the characters in Alan Conway's crime novel.
I can't fault the performances or the production of this 6 episode double scoop of mystery flavours.
Conieth Hill, Lesley Manville and Tim McCullen as Atticus Pünd the clever sleuth who's creator Alan Conway has decided that this will be the last case for Atticus.
This latest book Magpie Murders which misses the last chapter throws publishing editor Susan Ryeland and her CEO played by Michael Maloney as Charles Clover into a panic because their best selling author Alan Conway has disappeared and this looks like the final Atticus Pünd crime saga.
Agatha Christie who is the acknowledged benchmark author of crime mystery novels always follows a thread then cleverly turns any assumptions of guilt upside down .
While entertaining I found the television series of Magpie Murders written by Anthony Horowitz confusing in its story flow if the fictional story was in a different period perhaps like The French Lieutenant's Woman I may have liked it more ?